- Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 to market share
- 52% of those using Microsoft’s Desktop Operating Systems are now on Windows 11
- It’s a big turn of almost 10% away from Windows 10
In the end, Windows 11 is present on multiple PCs globally than Windows 10, at least according to a set of figures from an analytical company.
Statcounter delivered fresh statistics for July, which shows that Windows 11 has been accelerated to take into account 52% of all Windows versions around the world, leaving Windows 10 in the wake of 44.59%.
That’s quite a shift from the previous month, with Windows 10 staying right at the tip of 48.76% with Windows 11 of 47.98%. So Windows 11 was not far away from a full percentage point behind in June, but is now at the forefront with 7.4%, a turn of almost 10%.
Could this be the start of a mass emigration of Windows 10 -Stalwarts that flees the breadth of Windows 11? It cannot be excluded, and it is clear that time is running short when it comes to the threatening deadline for the end of the support for Windows 10, which is October 2025 – which is only three months away now.
However, I am not convinced that there will be a stamp of migrators, because while I have previously argued that you should make the upgrade to Windows 11 early – provided you can (because of your PC’s spec) – there is no longer quite the same sense of pressing in this case.
Why not? Let’s go over the next.
Analysis: Support and Scrapeaps
Something changed with Windows 10’s expanded consumer extended program recently and it’s worth recovering if you missed it. Microsoft decided to offer an alternative to the $ 30 fee that was previously required to get an extra year of security updates for Windows 10 (through until October 2026).
So instead of blunting these cash, you can now choose to get the Windows Backup app to sync all of your PC’s settings to the cloud. If you allow it to happen – via login with a Microsoft account – you can have the extra year with very important security updates at no cost. This gives you much more breathing space to find out what you might want to do next, which is good for those who can’t upgrade to Windows 11 because of its higher system requirements (or those who simply refuse).
Of course, ‘free’ is usually not completely free, and the costs here, as it were, allow your settings to be synchronized. Because of this, some online commentators have accused Microsoft of almost a kind of ‘extortion’ in terms of accessing your data. However, I should note that the wording of Microsoft’s offer is important here and that you do not sync all your personal data to OneDrive or something – all you need to sync is your Windows settings.
And having these settings synchronized should also help in the future if you want to make the transition to Windows 11 (or the following version of Windows) at a later time on a new PC. Microsoft’s hope, it seems, is that this will make this transition easier, and therefore people are therefore more likely to tread that path.
I don’t think there’s any underlying motif from Microsoft here to get his claws into your personal data, as some suggest, so in my book all this is fair enough. However, if you are not convinced, it is just as fair – you do not have to take up Microsoft on this opportunity. Instead, you can pay (or redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points if you have them, which is another alternative), or just move on and change from Windows 10 will come to the end of life in October 2025.
Whatever you do, don’t stay on Windows 10 without security updates – don’t care about worrying about Microsoft’s nose potentially in your data, a hacker could really make your life a misery by compromising your PC due to an unpatched vulnerability because your system does not have security updates.
By taking a broader perspective, I have half -convinced myself that Microsoft can even offer more than a year of additional support to consumers (just as it processes companies).
Mainly because this new Windows-backup-related offer has come in at the last minute, I suspect most of which is supposed to dampen some of the fear of ‘Towing ScrapHeap for Windows 10 PCS activists who (rightly) are concerned about the environmental impact of Microsoft’s Windows 11 system requirements. (Those who prevent many upgraders from moving to the newer OS due to having an older CPU or the lack of a particular security feature, TPM 2.0).
And then I don’t think it’s inconceivable that Microsoft may be offering another year of expanded support to consumers, and I think the company should do it. We get to see, but so far, with an extra year of support on the table for free (efficiently), there is no need to hurry to give up Windows 10 for many people. Not unless your confidence in Microsoft is particularly low or you do not have a Microsoft account and do not want to sign up for one (to sync your settings).
Of course, there are other options except Windows – the most important thing is a switch to Linux. In this case, of course, you need to be prepared to leave Microsoft’s ecosystem and set up some of the limitations that one of the best Linux -Distros comes with (mainly around compatible software, especially PC games).
In the meantime, we can expect additional spikes when adopting Windows 11 in the near future, although maybe not to the same extent as some people could expect, considering these extra choices, Microsoft has just introduced.
